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A researcher and artist named Simon Weckert has built what he calls a digital camouflage shirt, and the demonstration is striking. The garment's blurry floral pattern causes AI-powered surveillance cameras to simply stop recognizing the wearer as a person. It's a wearable counter-surveillance tool, and it raises real questions about who gets to decide when a camera sees you.
Shifting to the crypto space, Ethena is making a push to bring stablecoins into everyday financial life with a product called Ethena Pay. It offers a six percent dollar savings rate and five percent cashback on card purchases, settling transactions over the Avalanche blockchain. Whether that yield holds up over time, and whether regulators take notice, are the two questions worth watching.
And in the television aisle, Roku has announced its first ever OLED TVs. The Pro Series starts at nine hundred ninety nine dollars with four-K one-hundred-twenty hertz support, while the premium LX model arrives in October two thousand twenty six at twelve hundred ninety nine. The catch is that only fifty-five and sixty-five inch sizes have been confirmed, which may leave some shoppers wanting more.
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